Rules Suggestions
The Advisory Committees evaluate in the first instance suggestions to amend the Federal Rules.
| Name of Individual and/or Organization | Date Received |
Committee |
Rule or Form | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vladislav Kachka (20-BK-F) | 06/06/2020 | Bankruptcy | Form 318 | Considered |
| Hon. Christopher M. Klein (15-BK-E) | 07/10/2015 | Bankruptcy | Rule 4003 | Considered |
| Hon. Christopher M. Klein (97-BK-C) | 05/20/1997 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9027 | Considered |
| Next Generation Bankruptcy CM/ECF Clerk's Office Functional Requirements Group (Dana C. McWay) (09-BK-I) | 11/25/2009 | Bankruptcy | Rule 1007(b)(7) | Considered |
| Bankruptcy Judges Advisory Group (01-BK-E) | 12/17/2001 | Bankruptcy | Rule 4008 | Considered |
| Christian Cooper (18-BK-F) | 08/15/2018 | Bankruptcy | Official Form 122A-1 | Considered |
| Dan Dooley (13-BK-H) | 07/16/2013 | Bankruptcy | Rule 2016 | Considered |
| Hon. A. Benjamin Goldgar (21-BK-M) | 09/20/2021 | Bankruptcy | Rule 8006(g) | Pending consideration |
| Jason Wilson-Aguilar (20-BK-H) | 08/03/2020 | Bankruptcy | Form B410 | Considered |
| Hon. A. Thomas Small (08-BK-J) | 10/01/2008 | Bankruptcy | Rule 3001, Consumer Debt Trading | Considered |
| Hon. Paul Mannes (99-BK-E) | 04/30/1999 | Bankruptcy | Rules 2002(f)(7), 8014, and Director's Form B240 | Considered |
| Sai (15-BK-I) | 09/07/2015 | Bankruptcy | Proposed Rule Changes for Fairness to Pro Se and IFP Litigants | Considered |
| Michael Gieseke (23-BK-B) | 02/13/2023 | Bankruptcy | Proposed rulemaking on corporate ownership disclosure requirements | Pending consideration |
| Susan Ivancsis (10-BK-L) | 02/01/2011 | Bankruptcy | Rule 1007 | Considered |
| Hon. Dana L. Rasure (04-BK-E) | 11/16/2004 | Bankruptcy | Rule 3002(c)(5) | Considered |
| Kevin P. Dempsey (17-BK-A) | 01/31/2017 | Bankruptcy | Rule 2013 | Considered |
| Committee on the Administration of the Bankruptcy System (19-BK-B) | 01/15/2019 | Bankruptcy | Forms Application for Unclaimed Funds | Considered |
| Robert B. Katz, Esq. (12-BK-F) | 04/17/2012 | Bankruptcy | Schedules I and J | Considered |
| Judge Julie A. Robinson, on behalf of the Judicial Conference's Committee on Court Administration and Case Management (14-BK-B) | 02/05/2014 | Bankruptcy | Various Rules | Considered |
| John J. Dilenschneider (97-BK-D) | 06/09/1997 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9011(c)(2)(B) | Considered |
| Hon. William F. Stone, Jr. (09-BK-J) | 12/15/2009 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9013, Rule 9014, Need for additional rules and forms for payment of administrative expenses. | Considered |
| Bankruptcy Noticing Working Group (02-BK-A) | 02/05/2002 | Bankruptcy | Rule 9036, 2002(g) | Considered |
| Hon. A. Benjamin Goldgar (16-BK-C) | 04/06/2016 | Bankruptcy | Rule 6007 | Considered |
| Joshua Carback (23-BK-E) | 03/25/2023 | Bankruptcy | Proposed rulemaking regarding contempt proceedings | Pending consideration |
| Honorable Stuart Bernstein (13-BK-I) | 08/02/2013 | Bankruptcy | Forms 9F and 9F(Alt.) | Considered |
| Sai (21-BK-H) | 04/09/2021 | Bankruptcy | Pro se electronic signatures and CM/ECF | Considered |
| Lawyers for Civil Justice (21-CV-V) | 09/29/2021 | Civil | Proposed rulemaking on MDL proceedings | Pending consideration |
| Nancy F. Reynolds (17-CV-L) | 05/24/2017 | Civil | Rule 30(b)(6) | Considered |
| Thomas Jones (18-CV-G) | 02/03/2018 | Civil | Rule 8 | Considered |
| Impact Fund (15-CV-M) | 03/25/2015 | Civil | Rule 23 | Considered |